I think this is a great idea! +1! It would be great to find a home and community willing to take this forward... I'm assuming others would like to see the same.
We could start a vote to formalize this if necessary. thanks, Arun On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Adam Berry wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm proposing spinning out the eclipse plugin from the main hadoop source > into a separate incubating project. I'm willing to commit to this effort. > > With a separate project, that isn't tied (source wise) to the Hadoop source > we could make dev tools that could support multiple versions of Hadoop from > within a single IDE, which would be very helpful when migrating jobs or > dealing with clusters running different versions. > > The current tools seem to support the 0.20 line, and help with developing MR > jobs, and also have some HDFS tools included. So the early work would be to > ensure that these features were supported across the version space of Hadoop. > > Down the line we could also add support for additional tools such as MRUnit > and other products in the Hadoop ecosystem, to eventually yield a one stop > project for all dev tools around this space. > > If there is agreement on this, how do we go about getting it done? > > Thanks, > > Adam Berry
